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Pedestrian Crossing Points

Pedestrian crossing points are key to helping pedestrians travel safely around the city. We receive a large number of requests for them and consider each application carefully.

Previously crossing points were only installed where there was a recorded accident history. The council has now reconsidered the method by which pedestrian crossings are prioritised and now considers a range of social factors including:

the public perception of danger in crossing the road

how a crossing may bring the community closer together

how it could affect access to key services and green spaces

potential improvements for mobility impaired people

This approach also provides a more robust way to assess crossing point requests and helps to target resources to those crossings which are most important. Once a location satisfies initial criteria, they will then be taken forward for a full assessment.

Once the assessment is carried out the crossing requests can be placed in priority order and these will be published on an annual basis. In 2016/2017 21 new crossing request locations were assessed and placed in priority order, the full list can be seen on our Pedestrian Priority List 2016/17 [126kb]

As a result of this new process, the following crossing points have recently been improved:

If there is a road that you think would benefit from a pedestrian crossing point, please contact the Transport Planning Team on (01273) 290487 or email Travel.Planning@brighton-Hove.gov.uk in order for us to carry out a site assessment.